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Podcasts are series of digital files (audio and/or video) released
episodically that you can subscribe with dedicated software, usually
for listening/viewing offline. You can read more about podcasts
on this page.

Whenever possible Podcast links are usually available on the
collections homepage. They are displayed only when the collection
contains material suitable for a Podcast feed. Note that you can always
create your own customized Podcast, even
when no Podcast link is provided.

To subscribe to a feed it is usually enough to click on the
Podcast link, provided that you have the adequate Podcast reader application
installed on your computer. Note that the procedure will depend on the
installed Podcast reader. Please refer to your Podcast reader user guide
for specific instructions.
The Podcast links proposed on the collection pages use the "itpc://" protocol
instead of "http://" as this one is usually recognized by Podcast readers. In
some particular cases you might have however to remove the "itpc://" prefix
to make it work in your Podcast reader.

In the same way as you can create personalized alerts or RSS
feeds on the CERN Document Server, you can create personalized
Podcasts. To do so, simply perform a standard search on the CERN
Document Server for the document matching your criteria. Once done,
change the "Output Format" to "Podcast" and click on "Search"
again. You can then copy the URL of your browser address field, and
use it in your Podcast reader to subscribe to your personalized
Podcast. Note that the Podcast will only contain episode for
search results having material adequate for Podcasts.

Our Podcasts are just RSS feeds enhanced with Podcast-specific
tags (in http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd) served using an
"application/rss+xml" content-type. They are generated simply using
the Invenio search engine with a dedicated output format so that they
can be created based on any criteria matching material on the CERN
Document Server. The Podcasts contain usually audio (mp3) and
video (h.264/mp4) files, depending on the available material.

The material available on the CERN Document Server is usually
produced by CERN, focused on High Energy Physics. It ranges from
educational material for general audience to highly specialized talks
for physicists. The Podcasts available on the CERN Document Server can
therefore include any of these types of material.

Some applications might not support videos in Podcasts. In
these cases you might want to create a personalized Podcast that does only contain
audio. Some application might simply not support the file formats used
in our Podcasts.

In some cases it might be necessary to remove the "itpc://"
prefix used in URLs to have the Podcast accepted by your application.

Since the content of the Podcasts is produced on the basis of the
metadata submitted by "users" to the CERN Document Server, it might be
that the content sometimes needs to be cleaned. If you think that this
is the case, you can contact
cds.support@cern.ch